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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1919)
* / I i nbltoh«<l ev«rt BATTOJON iv«ry Thuridly nirfit by Collar* of tStSSU" ^TlitteBfc MoM bar of T« 1.1 l » ’ * All iuU Rim UMta oJdmd Out EDITORIAL STAFF a m Clark . S istfta « Coxay Evan*.. J. Boainbas Maaacar R. P. Huff .jAasiataht Manager BUSINESS ST/ FF aecond-claas Station, Te ^ 17, 1»05 matter at February JUNIOR SPECIAL Cl >ITION W. H. Fowler P': •.! •Art Editor Aaoistaae Edi««*ir N. Qlezen. P. B. Price E. E, Me L. F. Long, A. H. Juagman, C. A. Saitillo, R. A k K. J. Albert A H. Jr, **ROUCHNECI ’• | . A1 IKING It RDOME.’* > bavd' ... .(.Editor . . Assistant . . Aaaistant . .Aasistant .. AaeMant L . Aasistant tbaaa to mark easily building, do thWat town? i yell or throughout the any student bare febow in Ida own even pull this roughneck scuff in Bryan, The cam pus Indies ate the beet and kindest Indies in the world to- us. They al ways try to help us and make our stay here just as pleasant ns they poa. sibly can. -No trouble or inconven ience h too great for them ia enter taining our lady friends when they visit up. Yet these* ladies cannot come among us because seme mee in our cctrpe thoughtlessly, perhaps, in sult them. This ia a question every one should consider. . Put your mother or sifter ia the place of the campus ladies and see how you would feel about un From now on let os watch our step and hold our tongues when ladies are* present. —JUNIORS— 4 . INTRA-MURAL ATHLETICS light. At the preeMfl object af these nnntnMh caving and develophig nf material the regulag squad. This is a * >d thing, but iu ooareagerness f ovsrlooked the larger use ef rfmpany athletics, function should be in Sting the largest possible number of students and not in producing o few assn for vanity taame After all, the first aad original ra Mbs in tlw The present day Current of ath letics -is flowing strongly in the di rection of intra-mural competition and mass coatesfci The mass ides is Ik B,f»chl.r . ..Edior in-CW.f "l"'", CW ««' reason for any athletics value of the physical irngnovemeht to be gained thru them. By earnest ly and vigorously promoting intra mural or company athletics at A. and M* the preesnt system can ee improved to an eaormoue extent. But unlees someone takes an setivs part in this work and pushes It tie- thusiastacsBy to its fullest extent; we can not hope for much improve ment over oar present sydtem. JUNIORS— r v THE ALIBI. . Manager Asst. Mgr. AT THE heard our f f I h -lar dam wot the midst of a strsn (jiagainst men whom we M«e “reugnecks-. | Mai ■ten will remember the fle e of the men who were vietgna I i campaign. In thoee days | Airdome with the high gr I ijphnwB we are having t lures were absolutely the least, and it map tor could ev«m pictures vio! the 3^1 N is ■AB imSf at A. aa 1 appears nee fqr last r three 1 - i ve hud no no cla.« ear of men sat • of the Milled off ’OUghnei-K M. that the first yedis. h is m •ughn pect for distinguished i ■ here from time to time to us. Those speakers are from the very best. They ceuse from all parts of asany come from all parts Uqited States. Nearly e •him has an influence upoh teas of our colleg* and i easily seen .ithat a bad d made UPU{} them not only pereo^Uty but hurts our a first ch Worn of all the modem as no respect wh l Although our shoi best, it is seldom th Attend these show*. 4eme ia ft the midst of thi pat the tendency is for pgople to stoy sway, easily understood after the Airdome during -m * the picture Is 1* hi campaig'i n thought, y of oi lofjl military work, but Che deficiency iu clast athletics si A. and M. is. one of ,the most glaring defects in eur system of student activities. Quite a number of the lerger institutions of the country are seriously consider ing dropping all inter-collegiate cdon- testa sad making class competition the principle form of athletics. We are not s advocating such s radical plan aa this, but there is no gainsay ing the fact that our present schepte of intra-mural athletics is sadly de ficient and hia been fog few ypaJs.' \ )Ci aad analyse the same we feel re ia saying that its lack of sue may be traced to two main ran [CHANGE ***** •*<>* r to BUtu —iDnuhy- .'V i A. ADAK8, Mmr no res- invited apeak to Selected (lot only fexas but if the one of the prog- i can be pression hurts us College’i i institu- 1 I ■■ ■«»€ first place, the whole plan lijf Class athletics seems to lack n flpader or in other words there is no <'one making it his business to ree that company athletics are s suc cess. The problem of class athletics should be as important as that of school athletics • and, instead of the half-hearted backing it now receives, it should be pushed to the limit. In tra-mural competition cannot be suc cessful by itself but with the prop er management and leadership this will become ope of the tivest issues of student life; The second reason for the failure of class athletics lies in the fact that they are not regarded in the proper vm ry ji * In the shadowy ages of the early existence of man the excuse was first invented. It's inventor was it once set upon and kiBe^ for produc ing the abnominable thing; but the thing itself could not be S° easily done away with becauee it had found harbor in the mindh. of men. And so thru the advancing ages has the excuse arrived, keeping step with progressing mankind. And as mad- kind has perfected his language sad his mNchinss, so had the Dhvil par facted (the excuses which be adopted for his ewe. Just as the steam en gine has branched to make itha rail road engine and the steamship an- When men fail, if they reugh and untutored, they put up an ex cuse, but if they am veneeted urth civilisation they take retfugd behind Exctasels oldest sou. Alibi. Thh doe# not hold true of'pll men, for the clean and fair sport, the maa who plays the game fairly agd rag lose in ^ the right way, doea not employ young tinels.; Alibi to shield him. Wej hope that all men at A. and M. belong to the claas of true aportmen but time'Wi?! tell. : . f / —JUNIORS- DUTY. A«t.Mi«^r 4 pa. WOsstUaienr Hnw Yse s O. WCKCN, [” . blows, y An of th*/Cadets It tha proper . Tew sprout a I And disturb to he guarded youqg fresh man >d hayoneL yfl with a wonde Wi.. . atui from two od each Boor, and willing to |i H iliiM . - . ,j jr Jug quiet and hat— hair oc- R.li if ■ 1/ ll i I six The up sne ^ jpalmry GUARD Don‘t you think that the hverage cadet would stay in hit room during study hoqrs, whether'lhere, was a sentinel or not? It is only t a very small per cent, of the student body who cant be accounted for when ■•M-H < < f't I H-» > > ♦■H I II !■ IlM ♦♦♦■I ¥** “Rcugh- iever for i are the : campus The Air- i esidences campus fact is visit to mtertain- the least is right iy is dsat fot ♦ ri JAMES W. JAMES I I ■ 1. p|; PHONES 45 AND 490 a ill I I »♦■»-> t > 111 rn m i 11 »tt i »♦«• m non uaiary at thd* pmrtty teschei mencin^ life like and Will be sat spirit will be bog sr, ha- venal desire of *o stu- wiU have been realised, most quiet pad s udious on tha csmiras? The they don’t have aen- jj jl'T —JUNIORS ( ' \ jinatry seems toebe waking man ding a mere adequate members of die teaching In the past few ypars, other hrofessions aad bus- i been iacreased while the [bur tegchers hge' remuiapd ie level. Thid has nsces- wd a shortage of effleient land tha N people! are poan- T to realise that s teach r cry important'4-ole in our . 1 »- :IK. if now.on foot at secure « rdiha s so that the e as high ns to the plum 5*1 pe to seen *• salaries will be is paid yptfurs who whrk on tha school cahnot afford teachers o^i account of n Iadequ i ilfl ^ Si', i'll plumbers - : ; ® nm ■t :T ■ i —JUNIORS— J C. coktracts hall for tvro lice each wee c but With sseetings in t|»e Airdome ) afterjuppe p.^compul- Jm